I don’t know. I thought these two characters were fine as secondary ones in the Mandalorian, but they seemed too one-dimensional to build a whole show around. 

I’m not familiar with the comics, but just going off of the Marvel cinematic universe, I vote for Okoye to be the new Black Panther. She’s obviously a badass fighter, and while she’d probably struggle with the political side of the role, that could be part of her character arc.

Just to throw some love Teen Wolf’s way too. Back in the old days, when you had to rent physical VHS cassettes, my sister and I would always pick Teen Wolf from the selection of a couple dozen movies that our local gas station/convenience store had. I can’t tell whether I love it ironically or sincerely, but does it…

I think there’s potential here for a good series. There have been some good Black Mirror episodes that basically focus on this issue of the newfound power of public shaming given to us by social media and modern technology and whether that can go too far. I was a guest on podcast episode discussing the philosophical…

Mindhunter season 2 was my one and only experience as an extra, so I don’t have anything to compare it to, but we did an insane number of takes for the one establishing shot I was in (I was one of the prison guards milling around the entrance of the prison when they go to Attica in episode 1 or 2). It was basically…

Yeah, it makes more sense to assume her confirmation is a fait accompli and focus the energy on what to do about it. I’m fine with packing the court so that it’s actually more reflective of the views of the majority in this country. But I’m also open to the idea of a less obviously reactionary strategy of “judicial…

Sometimes I think that if I didn’t have a conscience and just wanted to get rich quick, I could write crappy right-wing propaganda books in this vein and make money hand over fist. 

Get ‘em, Chidi! 

Yeah, you can argue we’re not the absolute worst in terms of per capita infections and deaths, but we’re in the bottom ten in each category per worldometers.info (once you factor out the tiny countries with under 1 million residents like San Marino and Andorra). I guess you can claim merely being as bad as other…

That’s 2020 in a nutshell. You say something meant to be humorous by virtue of its absurdity, and someone points out that that has already happened in real life. 

Eh, I don’t know. I think Biden beats Trump in a pushup contest. It would be tragicomic if the debate on Tuesday devolved into a literal pushup contest, but I wouldn’t totally rule it out.

Yep. I was against court packing, but if they push through a Trump nominee in these circumstances after the Garland hijacking, pack the fuck away.

Yeah, I can’t believe they let him sit for interviews with Bob fuckin’ Woodward and let Woodward tape them. Trump is getting smacked around by Fox News interviewers sometimes now, and they thought he could hold up talking to Woodward? I guess we are lucky our wannabe fascists are so stupid and incompetent. It gives us…

I wouldn’t skim Spartacus. On the surface it does appear as quasi-softcore porn that is remarkably gender-balanced in it nudity, but I think the character development and the way they’re able to introduce drama into the story so organically by having characters with sincerely and justifiably held, but irreconcilable,…

That’s tough. I think Deadwood is the higher quality show all-around, but Justified has Boyd. That series finale “We dug coal together” scene is one of the all-time greats. My head says Deadwood, but my heart says Justified. 

Yeah, it is absolutely fucking ridiculous that so many great people have died, and only one of those old, asshole conservative politicians has, even though they run around without masks yelling all the time. If I weren’t already an atheist, I sure as shit would be convinced now.

I don’t know if there’s another show that pulls off a perfectly cheesy homage to perfectly cheesy source material while also packing an emotional punch and saying something substantive and nuanced about real issues like toxic masculinity and cultural appropriation. I love it so much. 

Yeah, not to spoil anything, but there was a pretty clear hint dropped toward the end of season 2 that Elizabeth Shue would be coming back into the picture at some point. 

As I’ve posted a couple times before, I got myself a PS4 at the beginning of the pandemic after not playing video for 10-12 years, so I’ve been working through some of the last decade’s hyped PS4 games.

I interpreted it as the latter. It seems like since Trump gotten into a beef with TikTok, the official message on this site is that TikTok is 100% completely awesome and wholesome. Now Trump is awful and should have been impeached like five times already, but it also seems like TikTok has some real problems with…